Dodge County News

Dear Editor,

Please excuse me for using this method of communication to express my thoughts and thanks to each of you, but I believe this is the best way to reach as many past and current DCHS students and staff members as possible. God has chosen to bless me beyond any level that I deserve. I have an outstanding family, a great church, a rewarding second career, and many other blessings too numerous to name. Sometimes we get caught up in what is going on with us today and fail to see or be thankful for what we have already been blessed with in the past. This is the reason I am writing this letter. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,

I have some very important information that I think the people of Dodge County might find very interesting.
One of Obama’s trainers was a man named Saul Alinsky, who was a socialist-Marxist and a communist. He had established a foundation called the Industrial Area’s Foundation in Chicago, Illinois. This school was a school for training radicals. Alinsky wrote a book entitled, Rules for Radicals. He said the new radicals should dress appropriately and blend in with society, yet never lose sight of their radical intentions of overthrowing that society for socialism. He created a system called community organizers. Barack Obama became a community organizer for several years and taught others Alinsky’s methods. [Full Story »] 

Dear Editor,

When you hear someone say that the truth shall set you free they should be reminded that it’s true when you know the truth and act on it. One should be more concerned about what they don’t hear instead of what they do hear. We are entering the season when everyone is saying how thankful they are but their actions convey a different story. Life is one of the greatest gifts that have been given to mankind.
Thanksgiving is one of the times that people come together to show their thanks but I often believe that we lose sight on the real reason for giving thanks. The one we should be giving thanks to, we seem to put him in the back seat of driving except when we have a real problem. We seem to spend more time on the worldly side of the house than the spiritual side. [Full Story »] 

Legals for November 25, 2009 [Full Story »] 

Recently, several hundred wrestling supporters attended the ribbon-cutting and open-house at the newly renovated wrestling gym.
The gym, located at the Peabody Complex, has undergone a complete transformation over the past few months at the hands of community volunteers and school maintenance staff. [Full Story »] 

Georgia State Representative Jimmy Pruett spoke to Dodge County commissioners at their meeting on Monday, November 17 about the status of inmate labor and the building of the new county jail.
Pruett advised the commissioners that he had spoken with the Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) commissioner recently. [Full Story »] 

Dodge County sheriff’s investigators investigated a report of a rape that occurred in Milan on Thursday, November 12. Investigators have arrested and charged Kenneth Richard Deese (age 42) of Milan, with one count of rape and furnishing alcohol to a minor as a result of the investigation. [Full Story »] 

This picture appeared in the May 27, 1964 edition of The Times Journal, which was the newspaper formed in Dodge County when the Eastman Times and the Dodge County Journal merged in 1888. The picture depicts people from the Ollie B. Peacock political camp and the Lewis F. Mullis political camp in front of the Dodge County Courthouse as the two sides agreed there would be no more vote-buying in the runoff for sheriff of Dodge County. The caption under the picture read: This picture should be framed and placed in positions of importance throughout Dodge County as a reminder that it can be done. It is estimated that literally thousands of dollars were saved in a maneuver that made the picture possible. It shows the lieutenants, colonels and generals of the Mullis and Peacock political camps after they had agreed there would be no more vote-buying in Tuesday’s run-off primary. And to make the agreement more binding, each side put up $1,000 and said to the other, “If you catch us buying another vote, you get my $1,000.” Ladies and gentlemen, that brought the vicious practice of buying and selling votes to a screeching halt in Lee (Eastman) district. According to reports this morning, nobody has an extra thousand. Shown in the picture are (l-r) front row, Ollie B. Peacock, representing himself; Mrs. George Williams, representing her brother; Sheriff Lewis F. Mullis; Pork Daniel for Peacock; Pete Dupree; Jack Loyd for Peacock; and Terrell Weeks for Mullis. [Full Story »]